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Monday, February 3, 2014

What's for lunch!

I love cooking - and eating!

Fresh and crispy broccoli salad

I chopped broccoli into tiny pieces, along with chives, radishes, red onion, celery, and carrots. I topped mine with bit of ranch dressing, but you can be healthier and just add a bit of olive oil and one of your favorite vinegars!

Potato soup and more

If you read my blog (well thank you very much-I love you!), you know I love to make soup, and most of them are made the same way, just different ingredients, depending on what I have in the kitchen that day. This was started with a bit of olive oil and butter, some red onion and chopped red potatoes (chop them small enough that they won't take forever to cook).

I also added diced carrots and celery. I still had a ton of broccoli left, so after I had cooked the other ingredients for awhile, I tossed in the broccoli. I cooked that a bit longer, and then added yummy baby portabella mushrooms, and just cooked about 5 more minutes. Season as you go along, salt, pepper, italian seasoning, garlic salt, red pepper flakes, thyme.

I added some chicken broth, but you could also use veggie broth. For some protein I added garbanzo beans, and I also added elbow noodles.

For the finishing touch, why not a bit of heavy cream!? It sweetens it up and makes it creamy (you just need about 1/4 cup). Oh, I also added chives when everything was cooked, for some color and freshness.

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I am a mom...always my first and most important job...I have beautiful daughter, Lindsey, soon to turn the big 30 (wow!), a beautiful daughter, Katherine, who is 20..and a handsome son, Mark, who is now 21! It's amazing, my kids are getting older and I'm getting younger!
My latest adventure started on April 1, 2008 (April Fools Day)..I opened my shop on Etsy, and I love it! I now have 3 shops on Etsy, be sure to check them out! http://www.jenscloset.etsy.com http://www.mymilkglassshop.etsy.com and http://www.thechinagirl.etsy.com